Caligula & three other plays
By: by Albert Camus ; translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert.
Series: A Vintage book
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: /1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Caligula, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 12-41 -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Other titles: Caligula and three other plays; Misunderstanding.; State of siege.; Just assassins.
Description: CALIGULA, an attractive prince, upon the death of his sister and mistress, tries, through murder and the systematic perversion of all values, to practice a liberty that he will eventually discover not to be the right one. THE MISUNDERSTANDING is about a son who expects to be recognized without having to declare his name and who is killed by his mother and his sister as the result of the misunderstanding. STATE OF SIEGE is an allegorical drama about liberty. THE JUST ASSASSINS is base on historical events in Moscow after WII.
Notes: Reprint of the 1958 edition published by A.A. Knopf, New York.